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Review in Brief: Space Sweepers (2021)
SPACE SWEEPERS is an ambitious, vibrant, zongo Korean space opera that runs a bit long and perhaps suffers from being overstuffed with too many ideas, but you go with it because you grow to love this dysfunctional crew/family of misfits … Continue reading
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Tagged Jo Sung-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Richard Armitage, Sci-fi, Space Sweepers, World Cinema
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Review in Brief: Impetigore (2019/20)
Even in a year chock-full of examples of distinctively-voiced horror, the Indonesian offering IMPETIGORE stands out. It’s self-aware without being glib (someone asks “who kills students?” the answer every horror fan knows, is any antagonist in a horror film), it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Horror, Impetigore, Joko Anwar, Tara Basaro, World Cinema
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Review in Brief: A White, White Day (2019)
A WHITE, WHITE DAY is a film, like its protagonist (a craggy, mesmerising Ingvar Sigurdsson), utterly consumed by grief. The imposing Icelandic landscape blurs the line between life and death, beauty and bleakness, memory and reality. Little moments of quiet … Continue reading
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Tagged A White, Drama, Ingvar Sigurdsson, White Day, World Cinema
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Review in Brief: Ainu Mosir
The Ainu are the aboriginal people of Hokkaidō, Japan’s large northern island. Following centuries of oppression, discrimination, cultural invalidation, the Ainu were officially recognised as indigenous people of Japan in 2008. AINU MOSIR (after the Ainu name for Hokkaidō) tells … Continue reading
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Tagged Ainu Mosir, Debo Akibe, Drama, Kanto Shimokura, World Cinema
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Memories of Murder (2003) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Black Comedy, Bong Joon-ho, Memories of Murder, Murder-mystery, Song Kang-ho, World Cinema
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The Perfect Candidate (2019/20)
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Drama, Haifaa Al-Mansour, The Perfect Candidate, World Cinema
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Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Well this was absolutely sensational. It was also the final film I saw in the cinema before Coronavirus closed them (cheery thought). PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE is sensual, appropriately painterly and with a huge heart. Love stories are … Continue reading
The Truth (2019) Review
Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine
Tagged Catherine Deneuve, Drama, Hirokazu Koreeda, Juliette Binoche, The Truth, World Cinema
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Windows into Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite
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Tagged Bong Joon-ho, Parasite, World Cinema
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Review: Parasite (2019)
I fell in love with the genre-hopping, tonally-tromboning work of South Korean firebrand Bong Joon-ho at university and ended up writing my dissertation on how his films represent fractured families and Korean culture. I’ve been waiting for PARASITE for what … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review
Tagged Black Comedy, Bong Joon-ho, Jang Hye-jin, Lee Sun-kyun, Parasite, Park So-dam, Song Kang-ho, The Host, Thriller, Trainspotting, World Cinema
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